LESSON 11

A Slide Presentation for Empowerment Technologies Students

ICT as a
Platform for
Change
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Topics:
✔ ICT as a medium for advocacy
✔ Power of social media
✔ Digital citizenship

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Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:

1. understand the importance of ICT as a platform for social

change;
2. understand the events that ICT helped realize; and
3. use prior ICT knowledge in planning a campaign using online
resources.

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The Role of ICT
in Recent History
EDSA (People Power
Revolution)
* During a radio broadcast of
Radyo Veritas in 1986, Cardinal
Sin encouraged the Filipinos to
help end the regime of then
president Ferdinand Marcos.
* A major protest took pace along
EDSA from February 22-25, 1986
– involving two million Filipinos
from different sectors.
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EDSA Dos (2001 EDSA
Revolution)
* EDSA Dos happened
during January 17–21, 2001.
It fueled when eleven
prosecutors walked out
during the impeachment of
then President Joseph
Estrada.
* This revolution would not
have been successful without
source: https://moonmon1310.wordpress.com/
the power of text brigade. 7
Million People March
* This is a series of protests that
mainly took place in Luneta Park
from August 22-26, 2013 – to
condemn the misuse of the Priority
Development Assistance Fund
(PDAF).
* The organizers and promoters of
the Million People March used
Facebook and Change.org as their
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medium of campaign.
Yolanda People Finder
* Recent storms in Philippine history
gave birth to the People Finder
Database powered by Google.
* During typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan),
the People Finder was a vital tool for
people across the globe to locate the
situation of their relatives.
* It is now adapted by most
organizations to help people track their
source: https://www.climate.gov/ 9
love ones.
Digital Citizenship
 What is Digital Citizenship?
 A digital citizen is a person using information technology in
order to engage in society, politics, education, and government.
 Digital citizenship is how we should act when we are using
digital tools, interacting with others online, and what should be
taught to help the next generation be better stewards of this
technology.

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 “
Don’t push people
where you want to
be;
meet them where
they are.”
Meghan Keaney Anderson
VP in Marketing, Hubspot

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CHANGE.ORG
 What is Change.org?
 Change.org is dubbed as the “world’s platform for change” where
anyone from the online community can create a petition and ask
others to sign it.
 During the past times, petitions are only done through signing a
paper, usually done by a group asking for signatures via travel.
 Change.org gives access to more people by allowing the online
community to affix their digital signatures on a petition.
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The Mission

Change.org’s mission is to help people

from around the world create the
change they want to see.

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Signing an
Online Petition in
Change.org
1. Visit Change.org
Open your browser
and type
“http://change.org”
on the address bar.

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2. Sign up / Log in
If it is your first
time to use
Change.org, click
Sign up or Log in
with Facebook or
Google account.

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3. Select a Topic to Support
Select a topic to
create a kind of
issue you will be
petitioning or…

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4. Browse Existing Petitions
…because you
are new, just
simply click
browse to look
for existing
petitions you
may be interested
to support to.

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5. Read the Petition
Read the petition
description to see
if this petition
matters to you. If
it does, sign the
petition.

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6. Share the Petition
You may also
share the petition
on Facebook or
any social
networking sites
to promote it.

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Lesson Summary
* ICT has helped improved communication when Filipinos
needed it the most.
* Radyo Veritas helped in the success of EDSA People Power
Revolution.
* Text brigade helped in the success of EDSA Dos.
* Social Media sites (Facebook, Twitter) helped in the success of
Million People March.
* Technology like People Finder helped bring comfort to
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Lesson Summary
* Change.org is an online petition platform that allows the
online community to create or sign a petition.
* Making use of online technologies can be a big help when
promoting a campaign, especially for online community.

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Credits:
Special thanks to all the people who made and released these
awesome resources for free:
✔ Presentation template provided by Slide Carnival
✔ Photographs by:
Unsplash | GMA News | OfficialGazette.gov.ph |
Climate.gov | moonmon1310.wordpress | Change.org

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Thank For questions and
inquiry, you can find
me at:

s! fb.com/kennjimena &
krjimena@cpu.edu.ph

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